1764 in music
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[edit] Events
- Wilhelm Friedemann Bach leaves his post as organist at Halle.
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart becomes a pupil of Johann Christian Bach.
[edit] Popular music
- None listed
[edit] Classical music
- Joseph Haydn – Symphony no 22 ("Philosopher")
- Michael Haydn – Trumpet Concerto
- Ignacio de Jerusalem – Matins for the Virgin of Guadalupe
[edit] Opera
- Christoph Willibald Gluck – La rencontre imprévue
- Pietro Guglielmi – Siroe re di Persia
- Andrea Luchesi – L'Isola della Fortuna
- Niccolò Piccinni – Gli stravaganti
[edit] Births
- February 8 – Joseph Leopold Eybler, composer (died 1846)
- May 15 – Johann Nepomuk Kalcher, composer (died 1827)
- July 1 – Georg Christoph Grosheim, composer (died 1841)
- September 11 – Valentino Fioravanti, composer (died 1837)
- September 15 – Friedrich Heine (died 1821) and Paolo Francesco Parenti, composers (died 1822)
- October 14 – Charles-Henri Plantade, composer (died 1839)
- November 30 – Franz Xaver Gerl, composer (died 1827)
- December 10 – Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
- unknown date – Vincenzo Fabrizi, composer
[edit] Deaths
- March 30 – Pietro Locatelli, violinist and composer (born 1695)
- April 17 – Johann Mattheson, German musicologist (born 1681)
- June 11 – Christoph Stoltzenberg, composer (born 1690)
- September 12 – Jean-Philippe Rameau, composer (born 1683)
- October 22 – Jean-Marie Leclair, composer (born 1697)
- November 30 – Dieudonne Raick, composer (born 1703)
- unknown date – Wilhelm Hieronymus Pachelbel, organist and composer, son of Johann Pachelbel (born c.1685)
